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Government Contracts Legal Round-Up
Don’t Delay: How the Harmonia Decision Impacts Contractors’ Ability to Win Protests
2022 NDAA Requires Prompt SAM Update If SBA Issues Adverse Size Determination
Biden Administration Plans to Increase Contracting to Small Businesses
Newly Uncovered Emails Intensify Republican Senator’s Unease About DOD’s Cloud Contracts
Appeals Court Deals Another Blow to Contractor Vaccine Mandate
Agency Erred in Issuing BPAs that Exceeded Terms of Vendors’ FSS Contracts; Meridian Knowledge Solutions, LLC, GAO B-420150 et al.
Protester Can’t Convince GAO that Agency Erred in Rejecting Low-Rated, High-Priced Proposal; SOC, LLC, GAO B-419977, B-419977.2
Agency Reasonably Terminated When Contractor’s Items Failed First Production Inspection; Master’s Transportation, Inc. v. General Services Administration, CBCA 6565
Agency Appropriately Exercised Option in 8(a) Contract Even Though Contractor Had Graduated from 8(a) Program; Monbo Group International, GAO B-420217, B-420217.2
Board Rules Contractor Entitled to Additional Costs After Government Unreasonably Refuses to Accept Equivalent Substitute
“New” Procurement Pulls Work out of 8(a) Program
Final 2022 NDAA Draft Allows HUBZone Appeals
New Trade Agreements Act Thresholds Take Effect January 1, 2022
2022 NDAA Makes Significant Changes to Federal Procurement Policy
GAO Uses Covert Testing Scheme to Assess SBA Screening Processes For Tribal Firms in 8(a) Program
5 Key Takeaways From GAO’s Latest Annual Report on Bid Protests
Simply Saying that an Offeror Is a Better “Return on Investment” Does Not Amount to Application of Unstated Criteria; Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., GAO B-420098 et al.
Best Value Tradeoff Is Unnecessary When One Offeror Has the Highest-Rated, Lowest-Priced Proposal, RiverTech, LLC, GAO B-420246
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